Suspender-buckle



(No Model.)

D. L. D'URAND.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE. No. 330,827. Patented Nov. 17, 1885'.

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DAVID L. DURAND, 0F DERBY, coNNEcTIoUr.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,827, dated November 17, 1885.

Application filed May 21, 1885. Serial No. 166,294.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID L. DURAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Derby, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Suspender-Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its objects to provide a novel, simple, and efficient buckle for suspenders, to provide a novel construction of the buckle-frame for pivoting the lever which engages and holds the suspender, and to preserve the box-like shape of the frame for receiving and guiding the suspender.

To such ends my invention consists in a buckle having its ends bent aroundto form inwardly-projecting flanges, which are cut and turned at one end in a direction toward the said front wall to form ears, which are perforated and receive the ends of a pin on which the lever is journaled by means of lips formed on the lever and bent around the pin in close proximity to the cars, all as hereinafter more fully described.

The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of theimproved buckle, looking at the rear side thereof. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective View of the buckle-frame; Fig. 3, a detached perspective view of the lever; Fig. 4, a plan view of the rear side of the buckle; and Fig. 5, a sectional view taken on the line :10 :0 of Fig. 4, omitting the lever.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now describe the same in detail, reference being made to the drawings, where the numeral 1 indicates the buckle-body, having each end bent at right angles, as at 2, and then turned inwardly or toward each other to form flanges 3, the whole constituting a box-like frame for receiving and guiding the suspender. The flanges are cut at the line 5, and one end of each is bent in a direction toward the front wall of the buckle to form ears 6, which are perforated to receive and constitute the bearings for the ends of a pin, 7. The lever 8 of the buckle is provided at each end with alip, 9, which lips are bent around the pin in close (No model.)

for the purpose of bringing the lever flush with the remaining or raised parts of the flanges,so that thelever presents no projecting parts to be caught by the garments, which would be liable to accidentally open the lever. The buckle is provided with ahook, l3, orany other desired contrivance for engaging a ring or other device on the suspender-ends, as usual.

I am aware that various means have'been employed for connecting a lever with flanged ends of a buckle-frame; but I am not aware that the specific construction employed by me for permanently connecting the lever has ever heretofore been made.

Heretofore a buckle has been composed of a front plate or frame having at each end a lip bent around toward the front plate, and provided with a hole into which fit the journals formed directly on the ends of the lever or clamp. This construction differs from mine in that each end of my front plate for substantially its width is bent at right angles, and thence toward each other, to form flanges, and each flange at its upper end is bent inward toward the front plate,to constituteabearing for the pintle on which the lever is journaled. By this construction the flanged ends of the front plate not only serve as means for supporting the pintle, but they also serve as rests or supports for the ends of the lever when the latter is turned into position to clamp thesuspender.

I am aware that asuspender'buckle has heretofore embodied a plate having its ends bent around to form ears provided with depressed seats for the ends of a serrated lever pivoted to said plate; but such lever, instead of being provided with lips bent around a fixed pin supported by flanges formed on the ears of said plate, as contemplated by my invention, was formed with trunnions having a pivotvd support in trunnion-bearings formed in the ears lever having lips 9, bent around the pin adja- :0

of said plate. Such construction, however, I cent to said ears, substantially as described.

do not claim. In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in Having thus described myinvention, what presence of two witnesses.

5 I o1aimis A Suspender-buckle consisting of a front DAVID DURAND' plate having its ends bent to form flanges 3, Witnesses: each having its upper end bent inward to form E. O. DREW,

ears 6, the pin 7 supported by said ears, and a J. A. COX, Jr. 

